UCLA law professor: Affirmative action hurts more minority students than it helps Mark McGreal - UCLA •October 14, 2017
Affirmative action hurts more minority students than it helps.
That according to Richard Sander, a professor in the UCLA law school, who during a speech at a meeting of the Bruin Republicans on Wednesday argued that affirmative action creates the unexpected problem of “mismatch,” a data-backed critique of the preference program.
The mismatch hypothesis, as explained by Professor Sander, is “that students will learn less when they are surrounded by students who had scores 10 points higher than them than if they were surrounded by students who had similar scores.”
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Sander made it very clear in his talk that mismatch is not just about race, but can also be about legacy status, people attending on athletic scholarship, or any student who was chosen for the school based on a preference rather than test scores.
Sander said he believes his theory can explain why so many minority students, particularly African-American and Latino students, drop out of school.
Whether it was based on studies available at the time, his own observations, or simple common sense, Thomas Sowell made this point 20 or 30 years ago. It's a very un-PC truth.
